The Canvas is proud to announce the May 7th opening of “Beyond the Pane: Artistry in Glass” a group exhibition featuring five local glass artists. This is the second year that the glass coalition has shown their work collectively. Several different types of glass working process will be represented.

Basement Studios artist, Lincoln Farabee, will be showing several blown glass vessels that are a combination of work from his class a Pilchuck Glass School, in Stanwood, Washington, and from a recent glass blowing trip to the studio of Ed Schmid in Bellingham, Washington.

Tasha Walen, also from Basement Studios, has been experimenting with kiln casting glass using the lost wax mold making processes which she learned at Pilchuck Glass School last summer. Her work will include her cast pieces with glass panel work, glass engraving, blown work and optical glass objects. Walen received a scholarship to study at The Corning Glass Museum in Corning, New York, last summer where she continued her studies with Jiri Harcuba in glass engraving and was introduced to working with optical glass.

Inspired by the need for spring, Nell McConahey from Spiral Studios, has focused a number of pieces around flowers, both flat and 3-D, exploring various ways of finding beauty in a simple bloom. She has also recycled cabinet doors, repurposing them as flowing art in which the visual changes as one moves about the room.
McConahey states "I am using a variety of ways to create this group of work; fusing and slumping, traditional came and copper foil, mechanical connectors, glue, solder, abrasive blasting and more. It's been great to spend some time creating work that is new and different".

Heidi Johnson has been working with traditional glass painting which involves painting fine layers of ground glass and enamels onto glass sheets, then scratching and brushing away the paint to allow the image to form and light to pass through. Each layer is then fired in a kiln for up to 12 separate firings. Heidi, from Raven’s Eye Studio will be showing her recent work exploring the Edo period of Japanese wood block prints and translating the style to glass painting. Heidi has placed Japanese geisha within iconic scenes of Juneau to create these glass panels. She will also display fused and painted glass tableware and lighting.

The newest member to the glass artist group Sara Chatfield, is exhibiting her first collection of kilnformed glass wall tiles. Sara originally from Juneau, now living and working in Haines, has been using a kilnforming process that creates beautiful flowing designs in her tile pieces. She is also bringing some original jewelry designs that combine, stone, metal, bone, ivory, and flameworked glass.